I am writing today to announce the closure of the Michigan Messenger. After four years of operation in Michigan, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news into a single site, The American Independent at Americanindependent.com. This is part of a shift in strategy, towards new forms [...]
An abstinence-only presentation provided to numerous school districts in Calhoun and Eaton Counties in October of this year provided false and misleading information to students about HIV, experts allege.
Two county registers of deeds filed a class action lawsuit Monday on behalf of Michigan’s 83 counties alleging that the Mortgage Electronic Registration Services owes millions of dollars in property title transfer taxes.
Despite evidence of the impact of mercury on children and public health, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette last month joined with 24 other state attorneys general in filing a lawsuit to scuttle new EPA regulations that would reduce mercury emissions from power plants.
The New Jersey Civil Unions Review Commission released a strongly worded and unanimously approved report Wednesday morning calling on New Jersey’s legislature to amend the state’s marriage laws to allow same-sex couples to be married. The 13-member commission was appointed as part of the law which authorized same-sex civil unions to review the legal, social, economic and medical consequences of the law.
The final report was made available via the web at 10 a.m. and can be found here.
The report concludes that the creation of civil unions has not addressed the social inequities in recognizing same-sex relationships and as a result many in civil unions have a “second class” relationship.
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